“Is this a twisted roll?” “It is or it is not.”
“Is this a geometric figure?” “No, it's the sound of the falling star.”
“Is it the mood of the sky?” “No, It's the cry of Song porcelain in the kiln.”

Searching for the memories in the abstract figures, bump into the beauty at the corner of life, a wake-up call during the flows of ideology. Once I had a talk with Tao Wen-Yuehin front of his painting, the diverse topics in our conversation, suddenly became the Zen meditator, no matter to know or not to know, all are enlightenments.

Uncertain temperature, colourful surrounding, vaguely, I saw the brush wandering on the canvas back and forth, I saw the artist strolling on the street in Paris, I saw him lingering between the antique shops on Yongkang street, stroking the mottled wall, imaging the face of the fascinating time, the beautiful trace of the years, carrying the soothingly unfolded wrinkles.
The warm tones are always gracefully bright and dazzling, the colours for Tao Wen-Yueh have absolute temperatures and expressions.”I’m almost overwhelmed by the red color , I perceive the red and gold as the representative of oriental culture, the red come from the temples even symbolise the spirit.”
Actually, France is really oriental, the bourgeois style of life during Paris period, and the contemporary art development during National School of Decorative Arts, cause the freely and abundant shaping and colouring structure, with a charming French hint in the oriental nostalgia.


“The pieces of colors have temperature.”says Tao Wen-Yueh. After processing the time and space, the thick pigments are shining by themselves. It’s like whitewashing, we are destroying while constituting, creates the warm depth with the footsteps behind the time.
It’s like Qi Baishi’s quote : ”everything I saw is what I gained.” Thousands years’ blending, collided out the elegant tones, those memories were chasing the trends while collecting the antiques and relics, they accomplished the pallet coloring philosophy of Tao Wen-Yueh. The black is never the dark, it is the galaxywhich been discovered in the Tenmoku glaze, abstruse and mysterious, also full with hue and glamor. It’s far as a dream but so close like a mystery, seems like exploring the equator in the frozen Arctic Pole, invites everyone to get lost in the tinted world which he built, the senses of hot and cold swinging alternately.

He deconstructed the concretion, simplified the complex, it’s abstract as an incomplete expression, it’s the unknown symbols came out from strikes, it’s the subconscious graphic. As the lines are the composition of the figures, it came from the dry brushstrokes skills of the calligraphy, the island is a looping cycles and calmness patted by the waves at night, the immensity is the footsteps of the universe that can’t be caught up, the blossom moment is the beginning of the legend, and the various dream is the delusion of the interweaving between reality and imagination.

All are symbols ! Either exploring passionatelyor expressing brilliantly, but no matter how he painted majestically or slowly pile up, layer by layer, the daily record settled on the canvas, the trace of wandering, it’s a romantic journey without a start and the end. “There’re always full of magical colors in the dreamland, this is the imaginary space interwoven by sky and land, the lines and the symbolsshuttling and drifting. The floating spaceship flying into the utopia, its a record of dreams which filled with loving deep memories.”, as we can see different shades and shapes in our daily lives, it’s the same as the words and the numbers are referred to one another, they have dependency relation. “Pick 3 random points in a circle, it will become a triangle. The abstract consciousness coordinate with rational symbols and sensational, delightful colors, seeking the new creating experience in the experiment with virtuality and reality.”

The layers of abstraction is like the changes it has achieved in the high-heated kiln fire, it pass on and on in its clear and light-weighted posture, the temperature of the progress, embodies itself to the depth of the artworks. Everything has a unpredictable temperature, the temperature of mood, the temperature of time, the temperature of wind, the temperature of colors, the temperature of lines, the temperature of the color blocks, the temperature of mottleness, the temperature of growth, the temperature of rationality, the temperature of sounds, the temperature of sentiment , the temperature of infinity, the temperature of cup, the temperature of ocean, the temperature of history, the temperature ofHan bricks, the temperature of Song porcelain, the temperature of geometry, the temperature of happiness and satisfaction, the temperature of awaiting, the temperature of affection, the temperature of aspiration, the temperature of life, the temperature of symbols……

Inevitable intention, accomplished the surprising coincidence. Originally hidden raging ocean, the wave is calm, but underneath it, there are ups and downs, but we can see the fore-waves clamouring and pushing the upcoming waves, fighting to measure the temperature of the beach. Soul to Soul, we are looking forward to know the temperature being face to face with you.